Speaking about his audience with the Queen, Mgr Antonio Mennini said: “First of all, I passed on the Holy Father’s warm greetings and told her that His Holiness often remembers his visit to the United Kingdom and has enormous gratitude for the kind welcome he received.
“I told the Queen that the aim of my mission is to strengthen the already existing good relations between the United Kingdom and the Holy See and to strengthen the good fraternal relations with the Anglican Church in order to give a common witness to the values of the Gospel.
…and the Queen thanked Mgr Mennini for the Pope offering to take all “those pesky Anglo-Catholics” out of her church.